Word: complemented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pond in the Germanic Museum court has now received its complement of gold-fish...
...came to the seashore, when he begged a night's lodging of a priestess of Isis. In her he found his feminine complement, and was happy for the first time in his life. But her followers resented him, discovered his scars, and would have delivered him to the Romans. Just in time he escaped them, put off to sea in a boat. Like most Lawrence stories, this one ends without finishing. "So let the boat carry me. Tomorrow is another...
...rare pleasure for the writer to find himself in accord with a CRIMSON editorial. But the careful comment in this morning's CRIMSON deals so well with an unpleasant subject that any further comment must be in the nature of compliment and complement...
...difficulty in the idea. It puts a premium upon speed. A good man will be anxious to prove his worth by graduating as rapidly as possible. It is impossible to absorb a large amount of reading in a short space of time, and reading is a necessary complement to a thorough study of many subjects. It would be very difficult, for example, to graduate from Harvard in one year in the field of History. One of the greatest advantages of the four year system is the time it allows for careful, digestive reading. But this objection merely presents an obstacle...
...baseball. A slow motion picture would show the batting weakness of a rival college, or it would prove the exact trajectory of a star pitcher's out drop. But it wouldn't add to the enjoyment of either the watchers or the watched. Drudgery is not necessarily the complement of a winning team, but scouting is one of the things that mars football as a sporting event...